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Exploring Traces – Part 1: “Summer Trace”

22 Nov 2016 3 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Elvira Kytori, Fall Trace, Inara Pey, Kylie Jaxxon, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life, Summer Trace, The Trace Too, Winter Trace

There have been several posts about “The Trace Too” in this blog and in Inara Pey’s Living in a modemworld blog:
Exploring Second Life Sunday tours (April 2nd, 2015)
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers (October 3rd, 2015)
Exploring, chatting and Mistress Jenny’s rezzday (March 20th, 2016)

Today I wanted to visit “Winter Trace” after I came across Inara Pey’s blog entry about it “A Winter Trace in Second Life“.

In fact, the owners and creators of Winter Trace, Kylie Jaxxon and Elvira Kytori, run 3 different sims now: Summer Trace, Fall Trace and Winter Trace. The new concept has 3 seasonal sim’s where each will stay for a whole year for all to enjoy, before changing for a new season, and design. I visited all 3 sims Saturday, November 19th.

November 19th: Exploring Summer Trace

Summer Trace is the former “The Trace too”. As I visited in March the last time, I couldn’t remember all details, but just after landing it felt like not being here the first time at all. I remembered in particular the colourful field of lavender with the lighthouse and the oldtimer. What a lovely place! I walked over the two islands of Summer Trace, which are connected by a stone bridge and enjoyed the feeling of Summer. At the beach is a large decking for chatting and dancing with a disco equipment now. I don’t remember that from my last visit.

November 19th: At the beach of Summer Trace

November 19th: Recreation decking at the beach of Summer Trace

For us, with the winter ahead, Summer Trace is sort of an escape, a short vacation into summer. I like the idea that it is open year round for more short vacations. Thank you, Kylie Jaxxon and Elvira Kytori!

Landmark to Summer Trace:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Trace%20Too/62/140/30

Still scary times at Woodbury Falls

20 Nov 2016 1 Comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Destination guide, Diomita Maurer, Second Life, Woodbury Falls, Zaccai R. Wolfe

Halloween is not that long ago and there’re still scary sims up to visit. Saturday, November 12th, I went to Woodbury Falls which is listed in the SL destination guide.

November 12th: Arriving at Woodbury Falls

“Woodbury Falls is a photogenic horror sim where it is evident that something is wrong. The town lies through the maze of abandoned houses where windows have long shattered in the weakness of their structures and rotting boards, Weeds socialize across the cracking asphalt of every road, gathering and laughing at the lone pedestrian. Do you have what it takes to survive?”

Upon your arrival at Woodbury Falls you should grab a flashlight as you’ll need it. Just across from the landing point there’s the entrance to an old mine, easy to recognize by the lonely dead body hanging just left of the entrance. I dared to walk in. Its dark inside and you shouldn’t be easily fainted. As I walked along the old tracks, I literally stumbled over dead bodies. Around one corner a bloodied woman suddently appeared and really scared me for a moment.

November 12th: The old mine at Woodbury Falls

When you visit Woodbury Falls get used to dead bodies, they are everywhere. In the forest, there must have been a massacre. Dead bodies hang from the trees like leaves….

November 12th: In the forrest of Woodbury Falls

November 12th: In the forest of Woodbury Falls

The town itself has all what you’d expect from a town: a church, a theatre, a cemetry, a motel. All seemed to be abandoned but there’re people. Kids gather in the church for ritual prayers. And if you enter resident homes what you see is either dead bodies, a crime scene or a bloodied child staring shocked into this surreal world.

Yes, Woodbury Falls is not for the fainted heart. It is dark, scary and depressing. It is for those who love this kind of scenery – and I did enjoy my visit as there are so many details to discover. Thank you Zaccai R. Wolfe (robesz) for providing this sim to us!

Landmark to Woodbury Falls
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Rock/240/140/22

Diary (113) Nov 14th – French Ladies in Bondage (II)

16 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary, Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, French Ladies in Bondage, Lesbian Dominant and Mature/Young Society, Mistress Jenny, slave cecy, slave Flo, slavin C

Monday night, November 14th, was very relaxing. Jenny was back from her weekend off. We just continued our visit to “French Ladies in Bondage“, this time with slave maid cecy, slave maid Flo and later slavin maid C. The place is not very large and surrounded by other adult places. The park doesn’t offer much else but a park. The castle has one open play area and onther quite nice room that is hidden just above a public prison with some cells. That’s it.

November 14th at French Ladies in Bondage: slavin maid C, Diomita, slave maid cecy, Mistress Jenny and slave maid Flo

We know that a place is not build of prims but of people. When there’re the right people … French Ladies in Bondage is for sure big enough for having fun. We had some fun chatting and discussing the French skills of our slave maids. Unfortunately, most probably due to the neighborhood, the place is quite laggy even when not filled with many.
We visited the new exhibition of erotic pictures at the Lesbian Society – steel and chains, then it was already time to retreat for us.

Diary (112) Nov 13th – French Ladies in Bondage and some other fun

15 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary, Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, French Ladies in Bondage, Heavy Bondage Club, Jenny Maurer, Lochme, Poison Fishnet, scarfdaniela, slave cecy, slave Flo, Tailor's HUD

Something for the diary again. Jenny was away for the weekend and I was alone Sunday, November 13th. In the afternoon I first spend some time to explore shops and sims and then I took Poison to the Heavy Bondage Club having a look at the weired crowd. My night was a bit fuller. I had slave Daniela, slave Flo and Posion with me. slave Daniela is now 2 weeks with us, staying overnight in a cage in the main house. The slaves are a bit scared as she was a sadistic domme before according to her own words. Here is a picture of me with slave Daniela.

November 13th: Diomita and slave Daniela

Tonight I took her and slave Flo and Po to “French Ladies in Bondage“, a sim that slave maid cecy proposed. Not a maids sim though, but Jenny asked the slave maids to file in some other sims too. The slave parking inbetween a big garden and a castle took my attention and a parked the subs/slaves there before we had a short look at the sim. It was already late for slave maid Flo and slave Daniela, so we will have to continue exploring this place.

November 13th: Diomita at French Ladies in Bondage with the parked Poison, slave Daniela and slave maid Flo

November 13th: Diomita with Poison, slave Daniela and slave maid Flo at French Ladies in Bondage

The night ended with Poison at Lochme, where I turned her into my panties with the “Tailor’s HUD”. This HUD is a very old toy and it was popular long ago. The vicitm becomes invisible and what is left is just the tag that is shown above the tailor’s tag. You can turn someone into panties or boots or whatever you can think of. When the victim talks in main it looks like this “Dio’s panties: hi, everybody“. Talking clothes can lead to some great fun and banter. And I had fun with those standing around at Lochme. But unfortunately it became way too laggy as the sim filled up and it was already late and so I had to stop the fun way to early. I will have to repeat using the tailor’s HUD.

November 13th: Diomita with Poison at Lochme

An early start into the season – Telrunya Winter

14 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld, Nessa Zamora, Telrunya Winter

The weekend is often the time I go simploring. I looked at the destination guide and already the 2nd sim in the editor’s pick list – Telrunya Winter caught my eyes.

November 12th: Landing gazebo at Telrunya Winter

“Welcome to a new chapter of the Telrunya sims, a truly magical Winter Wonderland in its captivating and unique beauty. A gorgeous landscape where time stands still, specially made for you…to just be.”

Telrunya Winter is owned by Nessa Zamora (noralie78) who also created it. I looked up her profile and found that it is not her first “Telrunya sim” and that she has created already several more sims (Lost Unicorn for example).

The winter time is coming again with more snow, christmas decoration and a different kind of fun in SL. Telrunya Winter is my first sim to visit for this season and it was already a highlight of the season. It is just beautiful! It is not just a snowy landscape. The moment you arrive you’re caught by the atmosphere. I turned the music on, slow jazz, and could seemingly smell winter.

What makes Telrunya Winter so fascinating is how Nessa played with light. There’re nothern lights appearing again and again and in the forest other light is shining through clearings. It is the light which provides this cosy atmosphere. And along the paths there’re laterns to illuminate the way. In the middle of Telrunya winter, just close to the landing gazebo, is a big pond which is perfect for ice-skating.

November 12th: Scenic atmosphere at Telrunya Winter

November 12th: Ice-skating at Telrunya Winter

But most of all, Telrunya Winter is a place to dream, to relax and wind down. Simply beautiful! Thank you Nessa for providing this gem for us all!

Just when I finished my visit, I came across Inara Pey’s article about Telrunya Winter. In “A mystical Telrunya Winter in Second Life” you’ll find a more detailed description. Anyway – another “must see” sim in SL.

Landmark to Telrunya Winter
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Diamond%20Island/218/94/22
Inara Pey’s “A mystical Telrunya Winter in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2016/11/12/a-mystical-telrunya-winter-in-second-life/

Ephemeral

12 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Bufje, Diomita Maurer, Ephemeral

Sunday morning, November 6th, time again for some simploring. This time I picked Ephemeral from the SL destination guide.

November 6th – Ephemeral (1)

“Ephemerality (from Greek ephemeros, literally “lasting only one day”) is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly. Typically the term ephemeral is used to describe objects found in nature, although it can describe a wide range of things, including human artifacts intentionally made to last for only a temporary period, in order to increase their perceived aesthetic value.” (from Wikipedia)

November 6th – Ephemeral (2)

“Time to reflect the purpose of my art, to serve longevity or fragility?” is what Bufje, owner and creator of Ephemeral, asks. Windlight setting and audio stream (from Ambient Art Sound Radio)are fundamental part of installation, please push play button of viewer.

I think the title is simply brilliant for art in Second Life, as it is temporary in many ways. It is firstly only available for a short time and then it’s gone. Secondly everybody gets different, not easily reproducible views on the art. And thirdly you can change windlight settings and get something total different eventually. I started using the windlight settings that were set for expierencing Ephemeral.
Ephemeral is strange, surreal and it took a while to get deeper into it. Giant beings around me which are threatening just because of their height. The effect is increased as everything is embedded in fog. The fog has another additional effect. Once you get closer to a giant you can see them clearer but you can’t see them as a whole anymore. The ambient music was sort of calming and another contrast.

November 6th – Ephemeral (3)

I was attracted by the giant woman with her two cats and the feeding bowl at her feet. First I only saw the feet and it took a while to see her in full height – not a beauty, yet determined, strong willed and literally standing with her both feet on the ground.

In the middle of the sim, the only coloured spot, standing out is an island of grass an a comparably tiny statue. You can click the grass and choose a ballet dance, what I did.

And then there are on on edge of the art installion many white dice with moving matchstick mans, a screen playing a video showing a horserider. There is so much more to discover but I really miss words describing it, pictures are by far better.

Last but not least, I changed the windlight setting once and took an overview picture. Incredible what windlight settings do with art. Without the right windlight setting, Bufje’s art would be still surreal but miss most of it’s effect. Enjoy your own visit!

November 6th – Ephemeral with no windlight Settings, still surreal but the difference is stunning

Landmark to Ephemeral
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA10/129/76/21
SL Destination guide
http://secondlife.com/destination/ephemeral

Diary (109) November 8th – Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet

10 Nov 2016 1 Comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary, Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, Duet, Jules Phelan, Korgi Lerwick, Mistress Jenny

Not that much to report from the slaves maids. They got the assignment to come up with some places until late night today, places, where we could get best services from them. We shall see about that. If there’s no place, I’ll have to add some more maid chores at home *winks*. Tuesday night, November 8th, while slave Flo was on the hunt for a good place together with Argi, I took Mistress Jenny to Duet. I had visited Duet on October 22nd and there a more detailed report about it here in this blog “A visit to Duet“.
This post will be without many further words. You can see how much Mistress and I enjoyed our time in Duet and I got some really lovely pictures.
Our visit started with the Freefall of course….

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – the freefall

Then we went over to the posing area. Unfortunately some of the background textures didn’t load, so we had to take what we could get. But there’re so many great pictures to take and some of them will be in our slideshow, just to remember a lovely night.

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – hot!

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny with the Germany flag

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – the wall

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – Submission

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – still in love

At the end of our visit we spent some time dancing and enjoying togetherness. A night to remember. I love you, Mistress Jenny!

Novmber 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet – mmmwah

Thank you Korgi Lerwick and Jules Phelan for providing Duet for us!
Here’s the landmark to Duet once again:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Duet/6/144/37

HeAdLiGhTs

09 Nov 2016 1 Comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary, Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, Headlights, Heavy Bondage Club, Lissa Erin, Madame Aurum, Poison Fishnet, scarfdaniela, Second Life, slave Flo

Sunday afternoon, November 6th, turned out to be different from what I thought it would be. But that’s Second Life. I met Poison and took her to the Heavy Bondage Club. It was less crowded than it usual is and hence less laggy. I began reading profiles while Posion enjoyed her place at my feet. And this way I came across Madame Aurum (lissa.erin). In her picks I found a text about HeAdLiGhTs – The Core of pure obedience.

November 6th at HBC: Diomita with Posion

“Are you tired of badly designed places, crammed with old stuff but empty of people or just annoying spam? It is time for something different, for both eye and mind: Stunning design combined with the most innovative tools, letting this place grow to something unique. A variety of toys promoting your interests and stimulating new experiences. Your imagination should know no boundaries! Let your dreams become incomprehensibly real….” (taken from Madame Aurum’s Profile)
Furthermore the next pick of her explains another intention of HeAdLiGhTs, being a HUB of Sims catering to BDSM, fetish and the D/s lifestyle, selected with style.
Of course I had to see the place! It turned out to be an outdated landmark in her picks but there was a board where to go to and this way my Sunday afternoon became a simploring afternoon, but this time simploring a kinky sim.

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomit and Posion at the Landing point

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomita and Posion at the Landing point

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomit and Posion outside D/s market

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomita and Posion outside D/s market

You land in the HUB area with boards containing information and landmarks to other BDSM or fetish sims. There we met Madame Aurum, who was very nice and welcomed Po and me. Actually the sim has just moved and it isn’t finished at all yet. The HUB area (so called D/s market) has style, not just some boards. There are also boads advertising planned events like a slave market. Outside of the D/s market there’s a lot to see and explore, although it is not finished yet. Po and I saw the slave market and a lovely meeting area. And we explored the entrance to an underground maze, but that’s really not yet finished so it’s better to wait a few days before visiting.

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomita and Posion at the slave market

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomita and Posion at the meeting area

Later, Sunday evening, I went back to HeAdLiGhTs, to this meeting area and took slave Flo and Daniela (scarfdaniela) with me. We might keep Daniela for a while, we’ll see. Anyway I enjoyed teasing slave maid Flo and Daniela in a lagfree environment. We met Madame Aurum again, who confirmed that the sim will be finished soon. I just hope that it gets enough traffic because it is build for it – and not too much traffic to prevent it from getting laggy.

November 6th at HeAdLiGhTs: Diomita taking Advantage of slave Daniela (scarfdaniela), slave Flo watching

Landmark to HeAdLiGhTs
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HighLevel/207/129/29

Furillen in Second Life

08 Nov 2016 6 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: Diomita Maurer, Furillen, Second Life, Serene Footman

Saturday, November 5th, I looked up the SL destination guide and came across Furillen. Somehow the name rang a bell, but more about this later. The description read very tempting for me “Furillen depicts an island off the north-east coast of Sweden containing abandoned industrial builds that were once part of a former limestone factory. Remote, bleak and beautiful, this is a Second Life photographers haven.”

Once I arrived at Furillen and saw the cold, snowy, dismal island with the ruins of a former insudstry, I began to do some research about Furillen.Furillen (older spelling Furilden) is an island in Rute on the northeast coast of Gotland, Sweden. For most of the 20th century, there was a limestone industry on the island until it was closed to the public by the Swedish military in the 1970s–90s, when radar installations became operational. The north part of Furillen is a nature reserve and a Natura 2000 area. Since 2000, the old factory buildings from the limestone industry have been used as hotel and conference venues by the Fabriken Furillen (the Furillen Factory) company, owned by photographer and entrepreneur Jonas Hellström. He started out using the abandoned factory and its surroundings as a backdrop for commercials and rock videos. (source Wikipedia)

November 5th – Furillen in Second Life: Arrving at Furillen

There’s a website about this sim furillen.org and I recommend visiting it first. The following information is en excerpt taken from furillen.org. The sim is owned and was created by serene footman in Ocotber 2015. Serene is an university professor in the UK in RL and the author of several books. “I originally ventured into Second Life as a researcher. I have always found creative sims to be the most compelling aspect of Second Life. By creating Furillen, I wanted to provide an environment in which photographers and Second Life wanderers would feel welcomed and inspired.”

The virtual Furillen was designed to retain some of the most distinct and recognisable features of the real Furillen: the airstream, the tree line and pier, for example, together with the large slag heaps that still exist as a reminder of the old quarry. In addition, there are several buildings, the main being a hotel that – on the virtual Furillen – doubles up as an art space with a series of rooms featuring minimalist installations.

Furillen became quite a social space. It is, especially, a place for photographers. Serene has also staged events over the past year, most memorably those devoted to Bowie, Radiohead and Pink Floyd – and it is the Pink Floyd event that rang a bell for me. I’ve visited Furillen before together with Mistress jenny during this event, not konowing about the background of Furillen. You can read in this blog about the Pink Floyd event in the article “Pink“.

It is amazing how perfectly Serene succeeded in making the virtual Furillen looking similar to the real island as you can see when you compare the pictures from wikipedia with the pictures taken in Second Life – chapeau! One of the old buildings is used for exhibitions and right now there’s an exhibition called “Birds” with photographs from laura.

I roamed over the island and climbed on the structures and was impressed how intense you feel to be in a real abandoned industry ruin. The highlight of my visit was the hotel which is placed just behind the tree line. The tree line looks really misplaced on this island in this dismal environment but is also just reflecting the real Furillen. In the hotel each room is a different piece of art, mostly surreal and a heaven for photograhers.

November 5th – Furillen in Second Life: The hotel behind the tree line

I know I am by far not the first writing about Furillen. There’s a long list of articles on furillen.org. Nonetheless I wanted to keep something for this diary and to inspire others to have a look at Furillen. Thank you so much Serene for providing this sim to the public!

Landmark to Furillen in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Love%20of%20Life/160/105/21
Website Furillen
https://furillen.org/
List of articles about Furillen in Second Life
https://furillen.org/reviews/

Monochrome – black, white and red

03 Nov 2016 5 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Diomita Maurer, Giovanna Cerise, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life

Monochrome derives from the greek words monos (alone, single) and chroma (colour). In art monochromatic painting has been an important component of avant-garde visual art throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. Painters have created the exploration of one color, the examination of values changing across a surface, the expressivity of texture and nuance, expressing a wide variety of emotions, intentions and meanings in a wide variety of ways and means (source wikipedia).

Ocotber 30th: A visit to Monochrome – black, white and red.

Sunday, October 30th, I visited Monochrome. Monochrome is an art installation of Giovanna Cerise and will remain on display until the end of December 2016. Giovanna calls her project “Soul of coulours”, the colours being black, white and red.
“The installation develops onto three levels, each dedicated to a single color: black, withe and red. The choice of black, white and red was dictated by my passion for these colors that evoke a multitude of contrasting references, in agreement or in continuation with each other. It is best to explore the installation simply walking through, but you get a good effect also flying between locations and by inserting the mouse look. You should try different settings of the environment setting to experience the different possibilities of light and ambience offering the virtual world.” (excerpt from the notcard you can get upon arrival at Monochrome)

Once again I came across this piece of art by following Inara Pey’s blog “Giovanna’s Monochrome in Second Life“.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome black

The three levels couldn’t be more different and that is not only related to the monchromatic black, white and red. On the black level you experience different levels of cubes which offer new view angels everywhere and the three sculptured steel beings in the center of the black level provide an anchor and orientation – and are a perfect object for photographs. When I visited I was still wearing my Halloween make up in black and white and I think that my own person adds another semi monochrome aspect, yet provides some warmth in the cold black and gray world.

The white level is like a big maze and I lost my orientation quickly. It is not only white as the walls are transparent on one side and like milk glass from the other side. The lost feeling was for me similar to what you get when walking through winter sometimes – in the end all is just white.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome White

And the red level? it is more like a 3 dimensional accumulation of red blocks in different sizes hoovering in the space. But when you dare to walk from the teleport point towards the red blocks you notice that there’s ground to walk on. Although red is a warm colour it didn’t feel warm at all for me.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome red

To sum it up, 3 dimensional virtual temporary art at it’s best. You still have the rest of 2016 to visit and experience yourself.

Landmark to Monochrome
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA21/18/125/31
Inara Pey’s blog about Monochrome
https://modemworld.me/2016/10/28/giovannas-monochrome-in-second-life/

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Exploring Traces – Part 1: “Summer Trace”

Still scary times at Woodbury Falls

Diary (113) Nov 14th – French Ladies in Bondage (II)

Diary (112) Nov 13th – French Ladies in Bondage and some other fun

An early start into the season – Telrunya Winter

Ephemeral

Diary (109) November 8th – Mistress Jenny and Diomita in Duet

HeAdLiGhTs

Furillen in Second Life

Monochrome – black, white and red

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